(Photo credit: NHRA.com) – After showing you Bruce Larson’s killer new nostalgia funny car, we’re now interested in hearing what old school drag car you’d like to see back on the track and in competition. Not modernized, not changed, just run exactly as it had been back in the day. The sport’s history has been filled with ideas that didn’t pan out like people thought they would, freak shows that were actually fast, and stuff that still has people scratching their heads to this day.
From the twin turbocharged and blown Golden Gator dragster, to the wild aerodynamically shaped machines designed and constructed by Jocko Johnson, and a variety of others, there are literally dozens of cars that aren’t legal to run any more that we wish we could see make smoke and fire in person. Now we want to know what cars you want to see brought back from the dead and put on the track, regardless of modern safety rules or concerns. We’ll forget that those exist for the purposes of this exercise. Maybe it was one of the old Top Gas Dragsters that paired dissimilar engines or that ran four slicks on the rear. How about a hydrogen peroxide rocket car or go kart? You tell us!
QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT OLD SCHOOL DRAG RACE CAR DO YOU WANT TO SEE BACK FROM THE DEAD (OR A MUSEUM) AND BACK ON THE TRACK AGAIN?
I am a diehard door guy so I would love to see a car I never got to see in it’s heyday….
The Gapp & Roush Tijuana Taxi!
Does anyone else rember the ” Alsetta”? Isetta two door with an Allison engine inside it with the driver’s head sticking out the rear window. If not ANYTHING ridden by EJ Potter! Bring them back to Martin!
Snake’s Army Monza. THE baddest Fuel Coupe of all time.
Tough choice, really. Speed Sport Special, though.
Phil Bonners ’64/65 Flacon, (all four sheels off the ground, not by dragging the bumper, but by shooting straight up at the drop of the clutch!), three wheels up in 2nd, and two in 3rd, amazing car!
Jockos car, a definte gem.
Snake’s Arrow, maybe. No Monza of any stripe, Pete, was ever cool….
I have to disagree, Gary. Snake made THAT Monza cool. I’m with ya on Bonner, though, or any Thunderbolt. AWESOME machines.
Anything driven by Don Prudhomme. The Snake knew how to make the crowd rise up and cheer, cheer, cheer.
Buddy Ingersoll’s turbo Regal
Jocko’s was so ahead of its time and I had the privelage to be his friend–he did our top fuel clyinder heads and we became good friends–RIP Jocko
‘TV’ Tommy Ivo’s 4 engine dragster Showboat and Jack Chrisman’s 65 Comet.
I saw the Comet at Etown back in the 80’s doing an exhibition run and never heard a nitro engine sound like that one!
Rain For Rent!
tommy ivo in his 4 nailhead buick, 4 wheel drive. that would be way cool.
I saw the Speed Sport Special a the first Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, KY. They did the Cackle Fest with it. Chrisman’s 65 Comet still gets around. It did Cackle Fest in Bowling Green two years ago.
I would like to see Eddie Hill’s twin engine dragster.
or Jim Lyle’s, “Quad Al”
Swamp Rat XXX
My all-time favorite Dragster! I was there at Etown in ’86…easily the most amazing thing I have ever seen at a dragstrip.
There’s a big story on one of Jocko Johnson cars in the latest issue of Cruzin Magazine (Australia).
Ramo Stott’s 1970 Plymouth Superbird ARCA car.
Every AA/FA up to 1972 (Push Started)
Every AA/FC that showed up for the old 64 Funny Car Races! (Push Started)
Gary Ormsby’s streamliner top fuel car
The first 2 cars I remember drooling over in magazines were Raymond Beadle’s Blue Max and Dale Pulde’s War Eagle circa mid-late 70’s, so those have always been my sentimental favorites.
Tommy Ivos twin Buick dragster always was a favorite in the magazines when I was a kid growing up in Kansas! And Hayden Proffitts topless Corvair Funny car would be a hoot!
I would love to see Chuck Poole’s dual hemi “Chuckwagon”, side by side with Bill “Maverick” Golden’s “Little Red Wagon”.
Tony Nancy’s 22 JR A/MR. The dragster chassis and the T body was very cool.Buick powered yea.
I would love to see the Commuter going up the strip at Santapod,it gets put on static display at a few events,but its made to go up the strip not sit in a tent.i think its a really nice looking fed.
i would love to see the stone,woods and cook swindler against Big John Mazmanians willys. I would also love to see Ray Allens 1970 ls6 convertible chevelle back on the track. I would like to see that same car go into a museum instead of being stripped of its art work and being driven around by the dick who eith owns or used to own / ruined Von Dutch’s name (tony christensen)
Scrima-Milodon streamline dragster. Candy red with gold stripes. One bad mosheen.
Bobby D’Andrea’s camaro or Randy Lambert’s Impala